Woo (Korean name)


Woo, also spelled Wu or Wo, Ou, U, is an uncommon Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 60 hanja with the reading "woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

As a Surname

As a surname, Woo may be written with either of two hanja. Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, both in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 people with these family names. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu. Rarer alternative spellings included U and Wo.

People

People with these family names include:

People

People with the single-syllable given name U or Woo include:
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